As was artfully covered by my colleague Mark Impomeni, the Bush Administration's "third way" in Iraq, "a general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals" (I think that was one of my performance objectives for my day job) has raised some questions about how a "time horizon" is different from a "timeline".

The author of this stirring prose must have been a project manager in a prior life. This PMO term is defined as "A time horizon, also known as a planning horizon, is a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end. It is necessary in an accounting, finance or risk management regime to assign such a fixed horizon time so that alternatives can be evaluated for performance over the same period of time".

Now remember that a timeline is very bad and a time horizon is very good. Now on to the giggles from Scarborough and crowd, to the dismay of former Bush admin Secretary of State Andrew Card. The fun starts about 2 minutes in.